fuel scooping

meneldil · Mar 20, 2016

whay can we not scoop brown dwarfs i would have thought it would be safer thae a hyergiant

Mohrgan · Mar 20, 2016

I don't think Brown Dwarves are active, or have ignited. They are more like bigger than a planet, than a real star.

TuxedoSteve · Mar 20, 2016

I believe the reason is because they do not support hydrogen fusion in their cores. For that reason Brown Dwarfs do not have a corona, that is, there is no plasma being radiated and ejected from the surface of a brown dwarf that you can scoop up.

Hell Razor5543 · Mar 20, 2016

As I read it, a Brown Dwarf is not a very energetic star, and so does not expel fuel mass very far or fast, so a fuel scoop cannot collect any. However, other stars burn hot enough to expel fuel mass far enough to be useable (while not so hot as to cook a ship), while other stars burn so hot as to be unapproachable to scoop.

Think of them as fuel station pumps. Some will take an hour to dispense a litre of fuel, others take 10 seconds, while some will spray fuel at the rate of 100 gallons a second. I would go to the middle option!

Feel free to take this with a pinch of salt. It is just how I understand it, but I could easily be wrong!

Limoncello Lizard · Mar 20, 2016

A brown dwarf probably doesn't have enough hydrogen outside the exclusion zone to be worth scooping.

meneldil · Mar 20, 2016

i was on the understading the a brown dwarf is basicy i large gas giant while on the sbuject why cant i scoop a gas giant

[DOOK] Droogie · Mar 20, 2016

a brown dwarf isnt actively fusing hydrogen into helium. they have large concentrations of methane. There's nothing to scoop.

meneldil · Mar 20, 2016

it came to me when try to avoid calling the fuel rats lol

[DOOK] Droogie · Mar 20, 2016

KGB FOAM. Filter the stars on your map to those types if you're looking for a scoopable star.